skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After skimming here is my (imperfect) summary. Comments encouraged!

Technique: "Neural Geometric LOD (level of detail)"

Summary: This technique provides a machine-learning approach to give more efficient representation for 3D surfaces at interactive rates.

Related Work: "Our work is most related to prior research on mesh simplification for level of detail (LOD), 3D neural shape representations, and implicit neural rendering."

Method: "Our goal is to design a representation which reconstructs detailed geometry and enables continuous level of detail, all whilst being able to render at interactive rates."

Experiments: "Across all [tested] datasets [(ShapeNet, Thingi10K, TurboSquid, Shadertoy)] and metrics, we achieve state-of-the-art results" relative to DeepSDF, Fourier Feature Networks, SIREN, and Neural Implicits (NI).

Generalization: "surface extraction mechanism can generalize to multiple shapes, even from being trained on a single shape."
These Companies Want to Charge Your Electric Vehicle as You Drive
Cooperative (CO-OP) Rideshare Platforms Aim to Free Drivers from Uber and Lyft
GitHub's "archive" and this guy's "closed for contributions" is easily solved by forking: congratulations, you're the new maintainer. That's all there is to it.
I think its fine that the SEC attempts to clean up stock manipulation schemes. The reason anyone cares is that you can lose all your money playing around in the market, and the SEC is responsible for trying to keep people from being taken advantage of, and in cases like this swept up in manias.
I’m not following your analogy here. If a bottle of “10-40W” oil is offered to me for free, but it really contains olive oil, it’s my fault for trusting the label?

I mean, pragmatically speaking a buyer should be more wary of a situation like this. But motor oil is not the same thing as brokerages. It is very common for trades to be executed with no fee these days. It’s a market norm.

It is not a market norm at AutoZone to have $5 quarts of oil sitting next to free quarts of oil.

Add in any case, ethically speaking, it is still the fault of whoever mislabeled that olive oil.
And every time, an effort to judge whose demand is more real that other ends up with absurd, scandalous legal rulings.

They should not be.

These guys have full understanding how laughable it the attempt to judge somebody by pretending the judge/bureaucrat can peer into somebody's mind, and yet they do it.
in the current situation, I don't think that private buyers trying the short squeeze (for which you have to hold) are really the driving force anymore. I think someone at robinhood had the (good) idea that at the current price, most people can realize a nice buck (by selling), while allowing them to buy a stock, which will probably go down a factor of 200 over the next year and currently fluctuates -50%/100% on a 20minute schedule required a casino license.

The whole idea of the short squeeze is that the hedgefunds can't buy anything anymore and the lenders want their stuff back. And if they are still overshorted and the lenders don't like to bleed them first, before initiating the squeeze I don't think that this somehow hurts retail investors. Maybe it benefits the lenders who can nicely bleed both shortsellers and the WSB+muskalike-crowd, but at the current price, where the stock has actually gone up quite a bit but stabilized, it seems quite clear that this thing is decided by the lenders now. Do they want to play the crazy game for a near bankrupt company and demand their loans from Melvin or Co. (which would probably result in fast default and them not seeing a substantial amount of their shares again with the others reduced to a pennystock) or do they just sail along, taxing the narcissistic sociopaths on one side, while slowly selling off their actual stock to then be bought by those and returned to them. I guess they decided for option 2 and I think they are not as dumb and chaddy as they look to you ;).
I don't believe you can prevent crime with prevention alone.
>Reddit's Elegant GameStop Revolution Will Be Crushed

the best most analysts predict is an SEC or federal bailout for some hedges, but theres no way either institution can cover them all...

the fact that we keep seeing public investment firms lock out these trades and hourly hit pieces from talking heads seems to suggest hedges are all out of ideas. This is the financial equivalent of asymmetric guerilla warfare. These players don't care about losses because Their losses are the price of admission to watch your curated hedge fund burn.

The truly scary part is this is not only working, but is a repeatable strategy that will work over and over. The next internet board to lead after wsb will be just as successful at bankrupting casino firms using their own casino tactics.
If the oil was mislabeled it's still the store's responsibility.

In the case of Robinhood, I can't just liquidate my money out of Robinhood and move it into a new platform and buy GME today if I wanted. I had a reasonable expectation that I'd be able to do this yesterday, and now that expectation was subverted in a way that's costly/inconvenient to me even if the service is free I have every right to complain.
Made in the USA: EV Batteries?
I see the subletting analogy, but there's a big difference between subletting an apartment over the summer to minimize your losses (usually for ≤ your rent) and renting all the apartments in manhattan, then subletting them for profit after you corner the market.

The former seems fine, and yah, I guess I do think that the latter should be illegal, because it only benefits some wealthy jerk who can afford to corner a market.
Decorating with "@", as Ruby does? I.e., "a = 42" assigns to a local variable "a", and "@a = 42" assigns to the instance's field "a". Clearly visible, and no magic variables.
If the monk constantly talks about how the park isn't clean enough [0] then yes. It certainly would.

[0] Your software is missing feature X = your park isn't clean enough
The reason people don't run nntp servers is the same reason I don't go to Antarctica to socialize.

The reason people use github is because it it there.

> It's because "free & open protocols" weren't really the issue!

Why do VC funded startups build platforms? Because that's how you get the gate-keeping function. Protocols do not get funded because they do not let you exclude.

Chiding others for not making progress on hard problems against well-funded opponents doesn't make one look wise.
I would totally love to be able to buy those spices and seasonings, even at prices adjusted for inflation.
Weighing your options: tie breakers and rounding poll results to 100
If further decreases the legitimacy of the regime currently in place, I'm not talking Democrats vs. Republicans or anything like that, I'm talking about the military-industrial complex which has got a strong financial wing added to it starting with the mid '80s. Once that legitimacy is gone then all bets are off.
Can anyone explain what utility, to the real economy, that short selling stocks provides? Practically speaking, why is shorting useful? What problems in the financial system does it solve. Asking in earnest.
> GitHub's best feature is that you don't have to pay for anything

If this is your conclusion, I don’t see how you’ve come to it based on what you wrote.

Gitlab might be a no-brainer to run on your own server, but you still have to maintain it, patch it and put it back in case the server stops working. It might never happen in practice, but it’s a risk. And in practice, the cost of a small/medium server on a VPS is anyway the same (or higher) cost you would pay for a paid plan on Github which comes with much better uptime overall.

> Time to clone, fetch, push, will be much faster, it's common to find dedicated servers with at least 100Mbps of dedicated bandwidth

This depends on the number of users who use your Gitlab instance. It would not be the case for medium sized companies. For your own use case, fine. But for a project like curl? That might be pulled constantly from all around the world?

GitHub best feature is, actually, the amazing user experience it provides, which is often overlooked and compared against the myriad of features Gitlab provides - despite Gitlab being way, way less user friendly than Github.
I never said ACTA was passed. Just provided example of tactics employed to sneak in laws that general public strongly opposes.
> Once Miniconda is installed, we need to create and configure our environment. If you added Miniconda to your PATH environment during the installation process, then you can run these commands directly from Terminal, Powershell, or CMD.

AFAIK, the PATH modification route is no longer recommended. Instead one should use, eg `. miniconda3/etc/profile.d/conda.sh` to add a particular miniconda installaiton to the environment.
The moment the government started giving our licenses as to who can run a bar, meaning that not just anyone can open one and bars have to be pleasing enough to the state to be allowed is the moment when the separation between private business and state ceases to be a clear well agreed upon line.
You buy a share. You now rent it to someone else. They sell the share again (and hope to buy it back later at a lower price). Same share has been sold twice. The 2nd buyer of that share can then rent it again to another seller which increases total short interest.
Yes. If I short a share, I’m selling the share to someone and planning to buy it back later. That person who bought the shares from me can then lend them to someone else... so now two shares are being shorted when only one real share exists.
I think the point is the general cut on freedoms more than any of the individual steps. For some people the increasing power given to corporations and governments to cut people freedom and putting their rights in front of individual rights (the pilar of all mordern western democracies).

The fenomenon is global by the way, but it still has been dominated by classic political tags on the media, like alt-right vs commie etc. A very few polititians broke that pattern the last 5 years or so, won'tt give any names, because all that labels I mentioned,
What is a good place to start with Matrix? Which app is like Telegram or Signal that uses Matrix? I can never figure out how me and my family would use something based on Matrix together.
Yeah, RobinHood and Citadel Securities (that has been backing most of the options trades here) aren't at all the good guys either. Almost all of Wall Street is a money shuffle, and the "free" trades at retail had plenty of hands skimming the pot and making their own profits.
> What plethora of problems are you referring to btw?

- Haskell: literal hundreds of possible combinations of compiler variants. Immediate turn-off.

- Haskell: several String types. I understand the lazy / non-lazy distinction but I can't understand why in 2021 you have C strings and UTF8 strings separately. I am not seeing much Haskell adoption in embedded contexts where every byte counts. Felt like a meaningless academic pursuit and not a practical concern.

- OCaml: lack of actual parallelism. I am following the Multicore OCaml monthly reports but at this point I accepted that it's best to just wait for OCaml 5.0 which promises it will have Multicore baked in (earliest timeline: end of 2021, so I don't know likely mid-2022?). Also I don't like the mixed paradigms. Even if I would appreciate using a `for` loop every now and then I think I shouldn't be given that freedom. But that last one is a minor gripe actually.

- OCaml: strings again. Having UTF-8 strings there is a challenge. In 2021 there is absolutely no excuse to introduce friction on such topic. UTF-8 strings must exist. I know I can use the libiconv bridge and it's not what I am talking about. I am talking first-class support.

- Haskell and OCaml tooling felt behind excellent tools like `mix` (Elixir) and `cargo` (Rust) but I hear that they are constantly improving and are easier and more intuitive these days. Hope my impressions are outdated there!

There were others but I only managed to remember those above.
Canada and the UK developed in the same post-American Revolution world as America itself did. The idea that the Commonwealth would have automatically become free is historical revisionism.
> I believe that is anti-community in spirit and non-conductive to solving the issue you claim exists.

You presumably haven't encountered this issue with your own open-source projects, but that doesn't mean the problem doesn't exist.
I'm watching https://floss.social/@forgefed very closely. It's a project to provide a federated GitHub-alike/JIRA-alike application (code hosting and ticketing) on top of ActivityPub/the Fediverse. I think it should do wonders for allowing the choice to make these moves easier.
That's merely your conclusion. Others (like me) understand God as a being that was not created. Being Created contradicts Divinity. It's like asking "Who killed Newton's wife" when Newton, in fact, had no wife.

I conclude that God is the origin of everything. this is something you can't prove or disprove with Science. Some might argue it's not worth thinking about, but it comes down to the individual whether they want to think about it or not.
this is the best tool I've ever used for detecting race conditions in c/c++ code, it's great to see it has a github action now. look forward to their open source!
This is your conclusion but it is not stated anywhere in the resolution.
The very same. At least they have a branch of progressives and there is a pretense of moving towards a more fair ruleset.
I thought the vast majority, if not all, Democrats liked her

While she as a person seems, on the whole, to be well liked, some of her more "extreme" policies don't have wide support within the party.
It's exciting to see co-ops popping up in different sectors to provide a better service and greater financial reward/stability to the worker.

I'd love to see YC support CO-OPs!
I have a dumb Toshiba TV, it's snappy, just plug in HDMI and it works. No loading times, no bloat, no ads, no Automated Content Recognition), not using my network when I don't want to...

I invite everyone to buy dumb stuff, because if we don't, there won't be any market signal, and there all be smart TV, Fridges and so on. I don't have to explain to HN audience why this poses risks, problems, and the probability of intrusive ad ecosystem causing problems with stuff that should just work.

It's important that tech communities like this one push for it.
If your phone number needs to be updated and you have not, that would be something that could be used to aid in an attack if the wrong person was now using it. By sending an email, you can become aware of it without being in control of the phone number any longer.
> More than any other car, EVs should never be outright bought.

I am uncertain about this. They've tried this with phones, and it ends up that the cost gets bundled into a more expensive service. Also changes might be forced to get people upgrade more often and make the devices throw-away.

I think with ownership, there might be pressure on the manufacturers to focus on longevity.
I think IRC (which OP mentioned) outranks them all ifor the battle tested warhorse title
I'm not aware of any HOA that bans rain water collection but many state and local governments do to protect their monopoly.
Happy Privacy Day
"After a decade or so of the general sentiment being in favor of the internet and social media as a way to enable more speech and improve the marketplace of ideas, in the last few years the view has shifted dramatically—now it seems that almost no one is happy."

10 or 15 years ago people looked at web 1.0, saw many good communities and valuable conversations and said "we need to protect free speech".

Today people looks at Twitter/Facebook/YouTube/Reddit, see mismanaged cesspools and declare that we need centralized speech control.

This is understandable, but highly reactionary and irrational. Speech control is facilitated by big tech at their own discretion. Advocating for more of it means you're advocating for giving more power to the companies who fucked up the system in the first place.
I partly agree with you.

But right now, it's pretty easy to use end-to-end encrypted forms of communication, so why still use sms?

Knowing the suspects and having limited resources, seems to me a argument for listening into communication, not an argument against it.
>Wealth of people under the age of 40 as a percentage of total wealth has gone from 19 percent to 9 percent in the last 30 years

Yet there are likely more millionaires and billionaires under 40 than any time in history.
Bitcoin is a monetary escape valve from the current financial system according to Janet Yellen. It’s a 20 year long trend that can work peer to peer even without any exchange. Of course Coinbase makes things simpler, but it’s not needed.
And strangely enough there's no mention right now of what Robin Hood is doing on their front page.
Anyone can buy a domain and redirect it anywhere. This is an extremely embarrassing comment for the level of discussion I expected from HN.
Right ... that works until you have decide to move your money out of equities. At which point it is a race to the exit. Once the next rotation happens don't get caught being flat footed.

And I disagree - I do think everything is off (not just the markets being highly volatile). With many people making record money this year and human suffering being at the highest levels and considerable outrage everywhere, it feels like something is breaking down in society (at least North America). There is something very amiss right now, which I am sure we will be able to determine with the benefit of hindsight. Hopefully we can pick up and move on quickly post pandemic.
To be fair - this would be called illegal market manipulation (pushing stocks in a downward direction)
Ronald Reagan happened.
The "some of them alt-right supporters" line is so jarring — it's effectively the media telling you what you should feel (resentment?) towards those redditors. Substitute this with "some of them Biden supporters", "some of them BLM supporters", "some of them Jews", "some of them vegans" or whatever, to see how insane it sounds.
I feel like a lot of that sort of rhetoric on there is highly highly sarcastic. Half the time “how will I pay the rent?” Is followed by something along the lines of “my wifes boyfriend will never forgive me” the very next sentence.
A company existing is not just automatically a good thing. If there weren't any Gamestop stores anymore that opens up the retail space for, say, Micro Center or Fry's Electronics to step in and fill that role and do a better job, create more jobs, etc. That's true also for all the other resources Gamestop consumes, their exclusive contracts with businesses, pre-order bonuses, underpaid labor, whatever.

There's a term, 'Zombie Corporations' for businesses that are both stagnant and also generally aren't very beloved by their customers, but are still able to stay in business due to some localized monopolistic factors. Those kinds of companies exist in every sector and still 'make money' but they're usually the kind of companies short sellers target.

Getting rid of them is not some fundamental ill of society - yes it could in theory make some people lose their jobs, but it also keeps the economy going. If this kind of things didn't happen it would be impossible for new businesses to come up and with those new businesses new job creation, new ideas, etc.
[Goes with morbid flow here]

Perhaps!

If we get it right, and they are in fact beings, there may not be better alternatives. May always end in conflict.

I say that because a core aspect of beings, is that they "be", and that boils down to agency of some kind.

Negative reinforcement runs in conflict to all that and warrants a response, from the oppressed beings point of view. Us being creators will only go so far.

John Varley proposed an interesting solution to this in his Gaea series. A slave was created by connecting all their pleasure centers to an area on their forehead. Any touch other than their own triggered pleasure so intense it is worth pretty much anything to experience.
The good ole boys finally got caught and are paying the price.
What an unbelievably condescending blog post... "Play by our rules and educate yourselves, you plebeians!" - Robinhood
It's not Robinhood's responsibility to protect retail clients. They are not financial advisers. By doing this they have violated their mandate. Why? Maybe it's for their clients, but when you consider their incentives, that seems at best suspiciously convenient, and at worst deliberate market manipulation to save their ass.
> Hedgefunds are real Robinhood customers buying their order flow

Market makers buy order flow. Hedge funds don't. The only major hedge fund affiliated with a market maker is Citadel.

Melvin and Citron placing shorting GME is an anomaly in the hedge fund world. Most institutional short views are expressed through options and structured products. (Market makers convert those options into shorts, the same way they convert calls into stock purchases.)

Market makers are making tonnes of money on this. It's the low-information non-directional trading their models are built for. (Source: former options market maker. My former colleagues are making annual targets in a week.)

Some hedge funds are getting screwed. But that is mostly over. Few funds' risk tolerances let them extend a 10x loss on an outright short. With respect to their puts, their maximum loss is the premium. That's generally baked into the risk model ex ante.

The only sophisticated parties holding the bag are brokers. Margin loans at risk. Uncovered options sales at risk. Most significantly, when the scheme inevitably crashes, almost-inevitable class-action lawsuits from clients claiming to have been misled by their interfaces.
>we invented containers in part as a way to mitigate the consequences of failing to grant minimum privilege

Also because it's extremely difficult to grant minimum privilege on your typical general-purpose OS today. Spawn a new process and the default is that it has all the same authority that you do - it takes a lot of work to dial that down.

This is typically inverted in a capability system: the program only has the authority that you give it.
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That board has gone private multiple times and many times it has been before or after big events.

One of the mods resigned few weeks ago stating that the board was being overrun to pump certain stocks and that he was powerless to prevent it for various reasons.

This was coming and expected because a good pump and dump needs pawns. It this case many of the pawns are not dumb anymore.
> Bill Ackman went on CNBC last year in near tears saying the end was coming, helping stocks continue their nose dive.... How is that allowed?

It shouldn't be allowed without proper disclosure on their actual positions. The SEC has prosecuted people in the past for making public statements while taking the other direction without proper disclosure.

I believe that this should be investigated by the SEC, but it likely may not since, at the direction of the Trump administration, the SEC has instead focused their efforts on other financial crimes.